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...owned by the Philadelphia Maritime Museum. While most of the tall ships are being manned by male cadets, the smaller topsail schooner Sir Winston Churchill, owned by England's Sail Training Association, is carrying 42 female sail trainees. In their massed splendor, the ships suggest another Masefield image: "They mark our passage as a race of men,/ Earth will not see such ships as those again...
...must go down to the seas again, For the call of the running tide Is a wild call and a clear call That may not be denied. -Sea-Fever, John Masefield...
...will follow in the trochees of the late Cecil Day-Lewis as Britain's 19th poet laureate? No hurry about it, of course-there was a seven-month wait last time, after the death of John Masefield in 1967. But the British press is already kicking names around. Most of the names don't seem to be overjoyed at the thought of the honor, which carries a yearly stipend of $182, plus $70 "in lieu of a butt of sack." Says Poet Stephen Spender, 63: "I do not want to do anything that would make me more hated...
Writing to an American friend, Britain's late poet laureate John Masefield recalled a lonely figure who was constantly hunched over a book at the British Museum reading room. "I often saw him," wrote Masefield, recalling 1907 and 1908, "and always said to myself, 'I wonder who that extraordinary man is,' for anyone must have seen that he was an extraordinary man, certain to make a mark on the world. Once, leaving, I saw that he was just behind me, so that I held the door open for him till he had passed. That was the nearest...
...children of her own than the TV director could possibly cram onto the set-shows poignant understanding of the problem. One day in February, the children's show will open: "This is Ethel Kennedy on Sesame Street." ··· "The call of the running tide," wrote John Masefield, "is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied." Actually, for Britain's late poet laureate it was mostly a call to the rail. Describing his chronic seasickness in a 1918 letter just acquired by Columbia University, Masefield appended a cartoon sketch of himself lying...